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The New Daily Study Bible

New Testament
WILLIAM BARCLAY
LINDA FOSTER (EDITOR)
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New readers will find Barclay’s wide-ranging insight readily accessible in The New Daily Study Bible series. Barclay’s language has been sensitively updated, and out-of-date references have been removed. Readers familiar with his work will find it enhanced throughout with explanation of contexts, sources for quotations and other details. The revision involved William Barclay’s son Ronnie at all stages.

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Extract

A Call, A Gospel and a Task
When Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, he was writing to a church which he did not know personally and to which he had never been. He was writing to a church which was situated in the greatest city in the greatest empire in the world. Because of that, he chose his words and thoughts with the greatest care.

He begins by giving his own credentials.
(1) He calls himself the slave (soulos) of Jesus Christ. In this word ‘slave’, there are two backgrounds of thought.
(a) Paul’s favourite title for Jesus is Lord (kurios). In Greek, the word kurios describes someone who has undisputed possession of a person or a thing. It means master or owner in the most absolute sense. The opposite of Lord (kurios) is slave (doulos). Paul thought of himself as the slave of Jesus Christ, his Master and his Lord. Jesus had loved him and given himself for him, and therefore Paul was sure that he belonged no longer to himself but entirely to Jesus. On the one side, slave describes the utter obligation of love.
(b) But slave (doulos) has another side to it. In the Old Testament, it is the word used regularly to describe the great men of God. Moses was the doulos of the Lord (Joshua 1:2). Joshua was the doulos of God (Joshua 24:29). The proudest title of the prophets, the title which distinguished them from others, was that they were the slaves of God (Amos 3:7; Jeremiah 7:25). When Paul calls himself the slave of Jesus Christ, he is setting himself in the succession of the prophets. Their greatness and their glory lay in the fact that they were slaves of God; and so did his.
(c) So, the slave of Jesus Christ describes at one and the same time the obligation of a great love and the honour of a great office.
© William Barclay

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